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| LTC8K6 | Sep 8 2011, 02:51 PM Post #1 |
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http://michellemalkin.com/2011/09/08/obama-legislation/ |
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| kbp | Sep 8 2011, 02:59 PM Post #2 |
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| LTC8K6 | Sep 8 2011, 03:07 PM Post #3 |
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And it's already paid for too... |
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| kbp | Sep 8 2011, 03:37 PM Post #4 |
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At least the signs are. Just spray paint over the "Recovery ...and Reinvestment". There's one job. Edited by kbp, Sep 8 2011, 03:38 PM.
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| Joan Foster | Sep 9 2011, 07:51 AM Post #5 |
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Discussing Maddow's commercial on MSNBC... http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2011/09/09/the_contradictions_of_the_msnbc_left_111274.html "But the real joke of the commercial is the argument behind it. Maddow objects when “people tell us no, no, no we’re not going to build it. No, no, no, America doesn’t have any greatness in its future. America has small things in its future. Other countries have great things in their future. China can afford it. We can’t.” She replies to this chorus of strawmen, “You’re wrong, and it doesn’t feel right to us and it doesn’t sound right to us because that’s not what America is.” It’s one of several ads equating American greatness with big infrastructure spending on the scale of the Hoover Dam. The reason the ad is so funny is that nobody thinks liberals such as Maddow would support anything like the Hoover Dam today. The Hoover Dam is a marvel. But by today’s green standards, it is a crime against nature. If you tried to build it, the Natural Resources Defense Council and Greenpeace would be in court tomorrow blocking it, with Ms. Maddow cheering them on. Indeed, look at all the activists attacking the proposed construction of an oil pipeline from Canada to the Texas coast. It would create thousands of construction jobs and yet liberals oppose it for the usual petrophobic reasons. Ironically, liberals love building highways and bridges, but loathe making it affordable to drive on them. This is just a small example of the Catch-22 liberalism has found itself in. The Left yearns to “go big” but it wants to do so through the extremely narrow routes it has created for itself. They say government must rush into this economic crisis like firemen into a burning building. But they also don’t want to lighten the useless baggage the firemen must carry or remove the Byzantine obstacle course they’ve decreed the figurative firefighters must run through before getting to work. Everyone in Washington should reread Jonathan Rauch’s 1994 book Demosclerosis, a term Rauch coined to describe “government’s progressive loss of the ability to adapt.” Thanks to the rise of interest-group liberalism, constituencies grow up around government programs and policies that do not benefit the general public. Obviously, these constituencies care more about their programs than the average voters do, so they make up for their low numbers with high intensity. The mohair subsidy is the number one priority of only one group of Americans: recipients of mohair subsidies. More significantly, organized labor makes up a tiny fraction of the workforce, but dictates vast swaths of labor policy in this country. As the number of interest groups claiming sovereignty over their own little slices of policy multiplies, government’s maneuvering room shrinks. Rauch compared the problem to the “hardening of the arteries, which builds up stealthily over many years.” Before you know it, first responders to Hurricane Katrina have to undergo sensitivity training before they can save people from drowning and “shovel-ready” green jobs require months of “prevailing wage” compliance paper-pushing and are too expensive anyway. Boston’s Big Dig took two decades to build; the far more ambitious Hoover Dam, which Maddow and company love, took four years. |
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| LTC8K6 | Sep 9 2011, 08:02 AM Post #6 |
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Try to build a few nuclear power plants around the country. They would provide a lot of jobs too, like Hoover Dam. We really need the generating capacity, too. |
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| kbp | Sep 9 2011, 08:47 AM Post #7 |
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...and think of ALL the government jobs it would create also! |
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